DON CAMILLO & PEPPONE
豆瓣
簡介
Don Camillo, Boscaccio’s village priest, is outraged. He gazes reproachfully up at the cross. “How could you let this happen?” Jesus replies that this is what democracy is about. After all, the poor have plenty of reasons for voting in a Communist mayor.
So begins our light-hearted musical about the Catholic priest Don Camillo and his rival Peppone, the new mayor of Boscaccio. It is 1947 and we find ourselves in a village in the North Italian Po Valley. This apparently sleepy little village is the setting for a battle between traditional values and the ideals of a social revolution. Not even Jesus can calm the furious priest down. In the war that has just ended, Don Camillo, unlike other clerics, fought with the partisans against the Fascists. Now he must fight against Peppone and his comrades. If necessary using the gun he has hidden in the sacristy.
The new mayor is no stranger to Don Camillo. They fought side by side when they were both part of the resistance to the now-toppled dictatorship. But Don Camillo vehemently rejects Peppone’s political views. His opponent’s attitude is equally vehement. Peppone sees himself as the representative of a new and better era. He is fighting for a better world, even if the Communist Party slogans he spouts sound odd coming from this man of the people. He considers the Church a force for evil, holding back progress.
These are our two combatants: the one cunning and eloquent, the other stubborn and intransigent. On Don Camillo’s side are the wealthy landowners and conservative churchgoers, while the poor labourers and progressive intelligentsia stand behind Peppone. Each side despises the other and this contempt not infrequently turns into burning hatred.
As long as it is confined to words, ideas and demands, the quarrel sows discord in the village, but nothing worse. But a devastating flood makes it clear that in an emergency they all need each other. When soon afterwards a strike threatens to destroy all the livestock, Don Camillo realises that uncompromising confrontation will plunge the village into calamity.
However, it is a pair of star-crossed young lovers who bring about the real change of heart. Gina, the daughter of rich landowner Filotti, is in love with Mariolino, the son of Brusco, a poor peasant farmer. As with Romeo and Juliet, their feuding families will go to any lengths to break up the relationship between their children. We all know how it ends in Shakespeare. Here, too, the young couple can see no way out except joint suicide. Fortunately, Don Camillo and Peppone find out in time that the pair intend to drown themselves. They sound the alarm and the whole village forms a search party. The despairing lovers are found just in time. The shock brings everyone to their senses. Boscaccio will never belong completely to either Don Camillo or Peppone. Instead of fighting each other, they will have to come to an understanding and learn to put up with each other.
Gina and Mariolino’s wedding does not resolve every quarrel between the villagers, but it is a festival of tolerance, celebrated in harmony by the entire village.
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Disc 1
1
Lang ist es her (Live)
by Original Cast Wien Ensemble
2
Wenn ich könnte wie ich wollte (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
3
Jetzt ist der große Krieg vorbei (Live)
by Maya Hakvoort
4
Genossen, Freunde, Bürger! (Live)
by Various artists
5
Ich, Don Camillo (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
6
Ist er noch lebendig? (Live)
by Various artists
7
Gemeinderatssitzung (Live)
by Frank Winkels, Reinhard Brussmann & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
8
Hoch auf dem Kirchturm (Live)
by Maya Hakvoort
9
36 Häuser (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
10
Was soll ich tun, Jesus (Ave Maria) (Live)
by Various artists
11
Ein perfekter Deal (Live)
by Dieter Ernst Suttheimer & Femmke Soetenga
12
Der Kampf im Glockenturm (Ave Maria Reprise) (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold, Dieter Ernst Suttheimer & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
13
Filottis Gut ist sehr groß (Live)
by Maya Hakvoort
14
Mauern (Live)
by Various artists
15
Heimat (Live)
by Frank Winkels
16
Bei Nacht sind alle Katzen grau (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
17
Don Camillo & Peppone (Live)
by Original Cast Wien Ensemble
18
Gehst du wieder zum Altar? (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold & Kurosch Abbasi
19
Die Korrektur / Manifest (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger & Frank Winkels
20
Klug und tüchtig (Live)
by Frank Winkels & Femke Soetenga
21
Lang ist es her (Reprise) (Live)
by Maya Hakvoort
22
Du und ich auf einer Insel (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold & Kurosch Abbasi
23
Drauf, drauf, drauf (Live)
by Frank Winkels & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
24
Bene, bene (Live)
by Frank Winkels & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
25
Kein Mensch ist eine Ratte (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
26
Finale I (Live)
by Original Cast Wien
Disc 2
1
Regen, Regen, Regen (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger, Frank Winkels & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
2
Wie kann verkehrt sein (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold
3
Wunder geschehn (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger, Frank Winkels & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
4
In der Gefahr (Live)
by Maya Hakvoort
5
Tricks und Lügen (Live)
by Femke Soetenga
6
36 Häuser (Reprise) (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
7
Wir (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger & Frank Winkels
8
Heute fängt die Zukunft an (Live)
by Various artists
9
Ein letzter Gruß diesem braven Mann (Live)
by Various artists
10
Es gibt nichts, was ein Mann nicht kann (Live)
by Frank Winkels
11
Genug, genug (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger, Frank Winkels & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
12
Der Streik (Live)
by Maya Halvoort & Andreas Lichtenberger
13
Du und ich auf einer Insel (Reprise) (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold & Kurosch Abbasi
14
Streit (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger & Reinhard Brussmann
15
Hurrah, Hurrah (Live)
by Frank Winkels, Kurosch Abbasi & Original Cast Wien Ensemble
16
Ich weiß, wie es geht (Live)
by Andreas Lichtenberger
17
Gold, Gold auf schwarzem Wasser (Live)
by Jaqueline Reinhold & Kurosch Abbasi
18
Meldet euch! / Idioten (Live)
by Various artists
19
Finale II (Bravo, Bravissimo) (Live)
by Original Cast Wien